#133: Child development expert, social entrepreneur and preacher Teri Gilmore describes her journey.
Release Date: 07/27/2025
Ep 155 Christine Frechard has abandoned France for Pittsburgh for very spiritual reasons she explains.
Your Spiritual Journey
Christine Frechard has had several different careers: from Academics, French teacher and CEO of IIAL (Institute of International art and Languages) to an art gallery owner for 21 years. Then, last year, she successfully became a certified coach for High potential, intellectual, emotional and neurodivergent individuals. She was raised in France as a catholic but always questioned the dogma and the orthodoxy. At 20 years old, she had a profound near death experience after suffering 3 weeks of total insomnia triggered by a challenging trip to Greece. Prior to the NDE, she tapped into a higher...
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Ep 154: Rita Lampe combines energy medicine, hypnosis and talk therapy to provide an integrative approach to trauma healing.
Your Spiritual Journey
Rita is an Advanced Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner, MSW/LCSW, and Integrative trauma healing specialist. She has worked extensively with clients with deep grief and loss, anxiety and PTSD, auto-immune disorders and cancer as well as people in addiction recovery. Rita studied Reiki in the early 2000’s and has level 3 Reiki training. This led to many shifts in her professional career working as a "traditional talk therapist" (LCSW) to a body-centered and intuitive healer. When she discovered and began studying Eden Energy Medicine (with Donna Eden) in 2017, eventually becoming...
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Ep 153: Rev. Robyn Accetturo shows us how to step into Christ Consciousness as a spirit in a body
Your Spiritual Journey
Rev. Robyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Reiki Master Healer and Teacher, and an Ordained Spiritualist Minister. Spiritualism is the Science, Philosophy and Religion of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of communication with those who live in the Spirit World, proven through mediumship. She has written two nonfiction books which show our extraordinary powers of Unconditional Love and Faith in action. Some call Rev. Robyn an Earth Angel. She’s been able to embody the Christ Consciousness and move mountains for many people here on Earth, just as Jesus said we...
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Ep 152: Winnie Xi discusses what it's like to grow up in atheistic China from a Christian point of view
Your Spiritual Journey
Winnie Xi was born in China where the communist government has made it hard for people to practice any form of religion. She says that it is by God’s amazing grace that she saw His light, converted to Christianity and then attended Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Listen to a former English professor share her spiritual journey towards Jesus. Note that her name has been changed to protect her family members in mainland China. She was fortunate to have a father who valued her as a girl in a time when many girl babies were left on hillsides, aborted, or given away for adoption. Her story...
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#151: Science meets "woo woo" in this second interview with Sarah Soltow about her spiritual journey.
Your Spiritual Journey
Sarah Soltow was a guest in episode #37 of this podcast, which aired in September of 2023. This episode brings us up-to-date on her research on the "organ of awareness" - fascia, the importance of breath work, and her angel encounters. Sarah Soltow found her way to Reiki and energy work in 2009 after a long career in education. Originally from West Virginia, she and her husband Fred lived in Phoenix, AZ for 6 years. In January 2020, they moved Back East and now reside on 15 acres of land just outside of Richmond, VA. Her journey to wholeness includes Reiki, crystals and vibrational...
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#150: The importance of risk-taking and other steps to your authentic self are explained by Patty Elvey in this episode of Your Spiritual Journey with Bob Dove
Your Spiritual Journey
Patty Elvey is a dedicated student of life using every experience for learning and greater awareness. Her 40+ years working with thought leaders and corporate visionaries spanning the industries of legal tech, quantum AI, media, and healthcare provides the foundation for her work uniting client’s professional goals with their personal passions. Patty’s uniquely holistic approach uncovers strengths and builds a roadmap for achieving their unrealized dreams. In her debut book, "Practicing the Art of Becoming," Patty shares personal insights that inspired and ignited her journey of becoming....
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#149 What's a death doula and why you might need one explained by Lee Ann Heitzel in her second visit to Your Spiritual Journey.
Your Spiritual Journey
Lee Ann Heitzel was our guest for episode #108 which aired in February 2025. During that discussion her focus was on her MetaArt which decorated the doors behind her and a special door at Lily Dale, New York. In this episode she focuses on her work as a death doula. At an early age, Lee Ann could assist those crossing over, creating a safe and loving space for the death experience to unfold. She fostered this natural esoteric ability for decades, working from the ‘side of spirit’ to support both loved ones and strangers who would ask for assistance. Years of this work revealed to her how...
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#148 Your Light Body and how to activate it becomes clear from this discussion with Dena DeLuco.
Your Spiritual Journey
Dena DeLuco is a spiritual teacher, speaker, and creator of the Activate Your LightBody program, a unique offering that helps people clear energetic blocks, raise their vibration, and live from a place of clarity and purpose. With a background in NLP / Life Coaching and hypnotherapy, she blends science-based tools with spiritual insight to guide clients through powerful transformation. Dena is passionate about helping people remember who they really are and align with their highest potential in practical, everyday ways. She loves guiding people to clear the static, raise their...
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#147 Harvard Neurospirituality lab teaching associate and LGBTQ+ advocate Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen discusses Christian Nationalism
Your Spiritual Journey
Our second guest pastor to challenge the tenets of the Christian Nationalist movement (see Rev. Janet Edwards, episode 142) Marian provides the keys to bridge-building that gives us hope for compassionate communication. Rev. Dr. Marian Edmonds-Allen is a pastor, peacebuilder, and bridge-builder whose life has been shaped by a profound spiritual journey—one that began in traditional ministry and led through a personal awakening to her own LGBTQ+ identity. Today, she serves as Executive Director of Parity, a New York City–based nonprofit that works internationally to heal divides between...
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#146 What color is your aura? Find out as you hear the story of Helen Ye Plehn and the Aura Color Wheel System
Your Spiritual Journey
Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the author of the Aura Color Wheel by Hay House Publishing: a system to identify your soul's purpose through your Soul Aura Color. She is an angel channeler, intuitive painter, and spiritual teacher. Her signature courses, Radiant Aura Activation and Embody Your Light, based on the Aura Color Wheel system, have named her a Visionary Educator on MSN.com. She is trained in many spiritual wisdom practices; Her students and clients call her the spiritual jack-of-all-trades. She is a certified crystal healer, third-generation Feng Shui...
info_outlineTeri Gilmore describes herself as a dedicated Social Entrepreneur; driven by a progressive outlook concerning leadership, organizational community & program development. She is fervent when constructing collaborative relationships to support children, families and community through sustainable programming. Her passion was fostering the development of the whole child as an individual while sustaining the child within healthy familial, communal, and societal contexts collectively. After 40 years she has retired.
Since 1984 Teri has liberally committed herself to civic engagement (Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society & Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership & Honors Organization, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund “The Wall That Heals” volunteer August 2018), and eventually serving on the boards of two organizations (Lions International Mon River Fleet, Spreading The Word Children’s Ministry).
Her expert knowledge of Child Development and evidence-based practices has allowed her to provide consultative services on the Local, County, State, and Federal tiers; including DHS/Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) Think Tank Revision of Keystone Stars CQI. Teri has developed programs addressing real life tribulations of vulnerable children; all of which were presented at various conferences. Most noted at 2011 Let’s Move Pittsburgh Regional Symposium; the Public Health Campaign led by First Lady Michelle Obama. While internationally referred to as “Dr. Gilmore”, Ms. Gilmore’s work has reached as far as Hiroshima, Japan/2013 and Copenhagen, Denmark/2015 at the 9th & 11th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability. Ms. Gilmore received an invitation to present at the University of Oxford’s International Round Table Symposiums; March 2019 at Harris Manchester College in Oxford England.
Ms. Gilmore holds an AS in Pedology, Academic Studies, and a Certificate in Black, Minority and Ethnic Studies from CCAC, a Certificate in Early Literacy and a Certificate in Building Bridges from Beginning with Books, a BS in Child Development and Family Relations from IUP, and hopes to complete a MS at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, with a Psychology in Education concentration; specializing in the area of Applied Developmental Psychology.
During March 2012 Teri was licensed to preach. On January 15, 2019 Minister Gilmore provided the Benediction for the Swearing-In of our previous Lieutenant Governor John K. Fetterman!